Ecclesiastes 7:25 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

²⁵ I turned my thoughts to know, explore, and examine wisdom  and an explanation for things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity and folly is madness.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁵ I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁵ I turned about [penitent] and my heart was set to know and to search out and to seek [true] wisdom and the reason of things, and to know that wickedness is folly and that foolishness is madness [and what had led me into such wickedness and madness].

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁵ I turned about, and my heart was set to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the reason of things, and to know that wickedness is folly, and that foolishness is madness.

Common English Bible

²⁵ I turned my mind to know, to investigate, and to seek wisdom, along with an account of things, to know that wickedness is foolishness and folly is madness.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁵ so much more than it was before. Wisdom is very profound, so who shall reveal her?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁵ Much more than it was: it is a great depth, who shall find it out?

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Genesis 34:7

Jacob’s sons returned from the field when they heard about the incident. They were deeply grieved and very angry, for Shechem had committed an outrage against Israel by raping Jacob’s daughter,  and such a thing should not be done.

2 Samuel 13:12

‘Don’t, my brother! ’ she cried. ‘Don’t disgrace  me, for such a thing should never be done in Israel.  Don’t commit this outrage!

Proverbs 17:12

Better for a person to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than a fool in his foolishness.

Proverbs 26:11

As a dog returns to its vomit, so also a fool repeats his foolishness.

Ecclesiastes 10:13

The beginning of the words from his mouth is folly, but the end of his speaking is evil madness;

Ecclesiastes 2:12

Then I turned to consider wisdom,  madness, and folly, for what will the king’s successor  be like? He  will do what has already been done.

Ecclesiastes 2:15

So I said to myself, ‘What happens to the fool will also happen to me. Why then have I been overly wise? ’  And I said to myself that this is also futile.

Ecclesiastes 2:20

So I began to give myself over  to despair concerning all my work that I had laboured at under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 7:27

‘Look,’ says the Teacher, ‘I have discovered this by adding one thing to another to find out the explanation,

Joshua 7:13

‘Go and consecrate the people. Tell them to consecrate themselves for tomorrow,  for this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: There are things that are set apart among you, Israel. You will not be able to stand against your enemies until you remove what is set apart.